22 January 2011(vol 342, issue 7790)

Editor's Choice

• Institutional and editorial misconduct in the MMR scare

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Editorials

• Assuring research integrity in the wake of Wakefield

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• Regulation and governance of clinical research in the UK

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• The life imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen

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• The new BMJ series on therapeutics

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• The BMJ is on the iPad

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Letters

• Travel websites should highlight malaria risks

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• Observational data insufficient to change treatment

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• Authors’ reply

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• Say no to seeing sales reps

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• Was it Henri IV’s head?

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• Authors’ reply

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• Professor McLachlan’s fraud

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• Author’s reply

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• Sixty eight per cent of us hallucinate

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• Pernicious use of surrogate markers

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• Hail, universal referral form

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• Beware SLEAZE tactics

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• Likened to pike in German

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News

• GP consortiums will need first class management support, says Nuffield Trust

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• Cameron defends moving NHS “from closed markets to open systems”

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• Government has “systematically underestimated” cultural shift needed to implement reforms

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• Unions attack plan to allow providers to offer cut price services

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• MPs call for thorough review of PFI to ensure value for money

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• MPs criticise UK government over poor transition planning

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• In brief

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• UK government faces court challenge over medical abortion

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• Regulator drops cases against pharmacies offering homoeopathic malaria prophylaxis

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• Decline in US abortion rate has stalled, report says

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• Illinois assembly votes to abolish death penalty, but governor hesitates

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• Organ donors and transplantations decrease in Spain, the leading country in both

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• Welsh Assembly considers introducing opt-out scheme for organ donation

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• Transplantations fall in Israel as new law complicates procedures

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• Chief rabbi rules against donor cards and organ donation after brain stem death

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Head to Head

• Have we gone too far in translating ideas from aviation to patient safety? Yes

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• Have we gone too far in translating ideas from aviation to patient safety? No

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Feature

• The Lancet’s two days to bury bad news

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• Why Southern Sudan needs your help

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Observations

• Is research safe in their hands?

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• How far is it from no society to Big Society and back again?

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• Civitas

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Analysis

• Six months of exclusive breast feeding: how good is the evidence?

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Research

• Use of weaning protocols for reducing duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill adult patients: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7237 (Published 13 January 2011)

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• Headache, migraine, and structural brain lesions and function: population based Epidemiology of Vascular Ageing-MRI study

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• Association of change in daily step count over five years with insulin sensitivity and adiposity: population based cohort study

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• Non-invasive prenatal assessment of trisomy 21 by multiplexed maternal plasma DNA sequencing: large scale validity study

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7401 (Published 11 January 2011)

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Clinical Review

• Diagnosis and management of hereditary haemochromatosis

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Practice

• New oral anticoagulants for thromboprophylaxis in patients having hip or knee arthroplasty

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• Early detection of complications after laparoscopic surgery: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

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Obituaries

• Robert Cameron Affleck

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• John David Chaloner

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• Leopold Goldman

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• Susan Marie Hayward (née Moss)

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• Nigel Richard Steel

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• Alexander Stone

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• Frank Ewart Webb

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Views & Reviews

• How campaigners and the media push bad science

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• Why do pharmacists sell homoeopathic remedies?

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• Poverty, plague, and prison

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• Red Beard

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• Overweening on weaning

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• I’ll do anything

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Endgames

• A rare cause of thunderclap headache

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• Meta-analyses II

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• Managing a high international normalised ratio

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Banker, speculator, or gambler?

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• Elocution lesson

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